Sunday, June 21, 2009

Holocaust: The Camps, Roma and Jewish Experience, Other "Defectives"

By Dint:

The Roma Experience


Gypsies, Roma: Romani and the Holocaust

Germany Road Ways, Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
There was a special Gypsy Camp there, camp near Celle, near Hanover.  See memorial specifying Roma, Sinti, Zigeun.

The Jewish, but also Gypsy, Homosexual, "Defectives" experience

Czech Republic Road Ways, Theresienstadt (Terezin) Ghetto

Germany Road Ways, Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
A particular memorial notes not only Roma as victims, but also homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, others

Germany Road Ways, Buchenwald Concentration Camp

Poland Road Ways, Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Austria Road Ways, Mauthausen Concentration Camp

Germany Road Ways, Alfred Dube, Survivor
A tribute to a survivor of several camps, and his subsequent accomplishments.

Places of Petr Ginz
The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941-1942, edited by his sister, Chava Pressburger, see ://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~5238~0/ 



Bogomilia: Rabbi Shmuel ben David of "Isaac's Torah"
Stories of the Holocaust. A friend of the main character in the book, "Isaac's Torah: The Memoirs of Jacob Blumenfeld," transmitter-editor-compiler, Angel Wagenstein; who is also caught in decades changing times, including the Holocaust. Discussions with the Rabbi - includes the Idea, vs. the later System implementing it, and becoming more focused on its own (the System's) survival than the Idea.

Petr Ginz site reference: The Seventh Well,
by Fred Wander. Stories of the Holocaust.  Accounts of life in various concentration camps, including Buchenwald, see ://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/books/review/Hoffman-t.html


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